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STRAW CARRIER FOR STAUKING MAGHINES.

Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

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ALFRED B. REEVES AND MARSHAL T. REEVES, OF COLUMBUS, INDIANA, ASSIGNORS TO REEVES & CO. AND JOSEPH I. IRWIN, OF SAME PLACE.

STRAW-CARRIER FOR STACKlNG-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,548, dated April 14, 1885.

I Application filed J une 2, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALFRED B. REEvEs and MARSEAL T. REEvEs, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Bartholomew and State of Indiana, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Straw Carriers for Stacking Machines, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to an improved strawcarrier for stacking-machines.

The objects of our improvements are to support by suitable guideways the under or return side of the conveyer-belt, so as to prevent the belt from dragging on the stack, to so construct said ways and combine them with the hinged sections of a folding straw-carrier that the ends of the ways on the two sections will form a strong interlocking joint when the sections of the strawcarrier are extended, and to catch and return to the floor of the conveyer trough any chad or straw which may fall from said floor at the receiving end of said trough.

The accompanying drawings illustrate our invention.

Figure 1 represents arlongitudinal section of a folding straw-carrier, such as is usually attached to a thrashing-machine or a strawstacker, with our improvements added'thereto. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged View of the hinged ends of the carrier and joint of belt-support.

a is the conveyor-trough; b, the'conveyerbelt, formed in the usual manner of two or more belts connected at intervals by wooden bars 0 c and passing over pulleys on two shafts mounted in suitable bearings at opposite ends of the conveyor-trough. The conveyer-belt is designed to move in the direction indicated by the arrows.

In this class of straw-carriers as heretofore constructed the under or idle side of the belt has been allowed to hang unsupported between the opposite ends of the conveyertrough, and much trouble has been caused, especially in building high stacks, by the unsupported under side of the conveyer-belt coming in contact with the stack and dragging the straw off. To remedy this difficulty we suspend from the conveyer;trough, by means of brackets d d, a pair of longitudinal ways,

0 e, one on each side of the trough. Said ways are so placed as to receive and support on their upper sides the cross-bars c c of the con veyer-belt as they pass over the shaft at the outer end of the conveyer-trough, the said bars sliding on the ways backward toward the receiving end of the carrier. The belt is thus sustained at a uniform distance below the conveyer-trough, and the ways act also as guards to prevent the bars of the belt from coming in contact with the straw of the stack.

For the purpose of forming a stiff joint over which the bars of the conveyer-belt will slide 6 smoothly when the conveyer-trough is in two sections designed to fold one upon the other, we cut the opposed ends of the ways so. as to overlap or interlock, as shown in Fig. 3, the

joint being strengthened by aprojecting plate, 0

f, secured to the lower section.

For the purpose of catching any chaff or straw which may fall from the floor of theconveyer-trough at the lower end,we build aguard, g, over and under the pulleys h, over which the conveyer-belt runs. Said guard extends forward a short distance under and beyond the lower end of the floor i of the conveyor-trough. It is concentric on its interior with pulleys h,

bars 0 to pass. The upper sides of ways 6 e are placed slightly above thesurface of guard 57, so that the bars 0 are guidedinto said guard and move close to its surface without the pos and just far enough therefrom to allow the sibility of catching against the under forward 8 edge of said guard. Any chaff or straw which falls from the lower end of the flooriis caught by the guard g and picked up and returned to the floor by the bars 0.

We claim as our invention- 1. The combination, with a folding strawcarrier, of guides c 6, each formed in two parts, having their opposed ends overlapping and provided with plates f, substantially as and i for the purpose specified.

conveyerbelt arranged to traverse said trough,

guard g, and ways e e, alDcombined substantially as and for Witnesses:

O. J. KOLLINGER, J. K. RIGHTER.

. 2. In a straw-carrier, a couveyer-trough,,a 

